Sole survivor of a Chicago serial killer who raped and murdered 11 women and then returned to have sex with their corpses reveals in new interview that she survived by playing dead Andre Crawford killed and raped 11 black women between 1993 and 1998 He didn't leave behind any DNA, fingerprints or witnesses, investigators said The only woman who survived, Claudia Robinson, played dead, she reveals in a new episode of Oxygen's 'Mark of a Serial Killer' that aired Thursday Crawford escaped the death penalty and was instead sentenced to life in prison, where he died in March 2017 from liver cancer. Crawford, who was sentenced to life in prison, but died in 2017 from liver cancer, terrorized women in the mid 1990s in the Chicago area. He had lured Claudia Robinson into an abandoned building after a 1997 Thanksgiving party and raped her multiple times with a knife to her throat, according to court documents. She called out for help, but a female onlooker didn't believe her, robbed her and left. Robinson was left to fend her herself. Crawford brought her to another building, where he strangled her with a telephone cord, and she lost consciousness but woke up with Crawford still there. He then hit her over and over again with a two-by-four piece of wood. Toward the end the ordeal, she played dead, according to court documents reviewed by DailyMail.com. Responding officers who testified said her fingers and kneecap were 'mangled.' 'It looked twisted so you could not see her knee, you could not see her kneecap,' the officer testified. Robinson was found by a passerby bloody and naked from the waist down, required 52 stitches and over three months of hospitalization. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9478997/Oxygen-features-Chicago-serial-killer-Andre-Crawford-one-woman-survived.html